The Sun. — London, England, 1809-08-21 00:00:00

FRENCH AND DUTCH PAPERS. THIRTIETH FRENCH BULLETIN. " VIENNA, JULY 30.—The gth army, which was commanded by the Prince of Ponte Corvo, was disbanded on the sth instant. The Saxons, who formed part of it, are under the orders of General Reymen. The Prince of Ponte Corvo is gone to use the waters. In the battle of Wagram, the vil lage of that name was carried on the 6th, between 10 and if o'clock, and the glory of this successful enterprise is due to the corps of Marshal Oudinot. " The House of Austria took the field this cam paign with 62 regiments of the line, 12 regiments of cavalry, 12 regiments of grenadiers, four free corps or legions, making in the whole 3115,000- men ; 150 battalions militia (landwhers) command ed by ancient officers, exercised 10 months ; 40,000 men of the Hungarian iosurreaion, and 60,000 horse, artillery, rnd miners, composing in the whole frOm 5 to 600,000 men. With this force the House of Austria supposes to be sure of viaory.— She entertained a hope of shaking the hover of France, if even her whole force were united. But hoc, armies are notwithstanding reduced to one fourth part of their original strength, while the French army has been increbed to double the num ber it consisted of at Ratisbon. " In the castle of Gratz 20 pieces of ordnance have been found. The castle of Sachenborg, situat ed on the frontiers of Tyrol, has surrendered to General Rosen. • " The Duke of Dantzic has entered Tyrol with 25,000 men. He has occupied Lofers, and disarm ed all the inhabitants; he must, by this time, be at Inspruck. General Thielman has entered Dres den. The Duke of Abrantes is in Bayreuth, and has pushed his advanced guard to the frontiers of Bohemia. ANISTERDAM, AUG. s..—Our Court Gazette of yesterday contains the following article, dated the 4th : ‘-` The Minister of War set out last night to su perintend the execution of the measures ordered by his Majesty, and this day the King himself proceed ed to Rotterdam. The journey of his Majesty has no other objets than that of expediting and inspe&- ing the military preparations, and his absence will continue but a few days. c‘ The present circumstances, though little incon venient for France, are extremely difficult for our country, but they will serve to render more con spicuous the sentiments of those who have already in ordinary times proved themselves to be the friends of their country and tl - 4 1ekisting state of things. " It is very surprising that such a man as Lieute nant-General Bruce should have succeeded in ob taining the confidence of the Government so far as to obtain the important rank he held in the army.— He had the honour of receiving the command of his Majesty to defend to the last thebatteries of the Island of South Beveland, and yet he abandoned then" to the enemy without firing a cannon ur a m u s k e , , acid r.•tianed to Bergeri-op-Z Join, after having called together a Council of War, to cover the shame of a proceeding which so strongly excites '- the. suspicion of treason.' By a decree 01 tills date his Dlaje , ly has deprived him of all his military rank, and declared him incapable of ever resurniog the same. As Grand Master of the Ordtr of the Union, his Majesty has besides declared him uti orthy of bolding any rink in that Order, and has struck his name out of the list ot-the Knights. A part of the Royal Guards, who'were at Bergen-op Zoom, be ing disgusted at the conduct of this General, refused to receive him." ROTTERDIM, AUG. 4.—General Chamberlac oc cupies the lot bank of the Scheldt with a strong army. He can eisily pass to the right bank, as be acts in concert with A ;tniral Mississy. A great number of troops are on their march for the defence of 'lnt wcrp. LEN_DEN, AUG. s.—The French fleet lies at the distance of a mile from Antwerp. Within these few days a great number of troops bave passed through Gorcum, Haerlem, and Dord recht, and art destined to Breda and Bergen-op- Zootri, where it is supposed the principal Dutch force will be colleted. A considerable tiain of ar tillery has passed through aderlem. A. squadron of cuirassiers and a company have arrived at Utrecht from Leo. • f 4NISTERDAM, AUG. 5.-In all the synagogues, the Rabbis have exhorted the Jews to arm an de fence of the country. In the present circumstances an extraordinary levy of seamen is to take ph i ee, Able . seamen are to have 50 florins bounty, and or dinary seamen to have half of that sum. PARIS, JULY 3I.—A letter from Vienna, dated the 20th, states as follows: " Prince John of Lichtenstein and Gen. Wimpfen have had a long conference with the. Piince of Neufchatel. Prince John of Lichtenstein, it is said, has received the most extensive powers for the con= cksion of a treaty of peace. At the last audience the Emperor Napoleon gave him a most distinguish ed recepti ,, n. A speedy, and 'hat is more, a last ing peace, mty be relied on. According to all re ports, the principal conditions are agreed upon, Tnit Emperor Napoleon will not remain much longer at Schoenwun. It is known that the Em peror FrAnci: has declared he wishes for peace, and that he has giVen the Archduke Charles full powers to decide on every thing. He besides will enter into no alliance with Enghtud, however alluring ; ing may be the propositions of the Cabinet of •Lnu don." PARIS, AUGUST 1.--With respe& to the English Expedition, the most ae.ti , e measures b-slie been taken along the wiiote coast of Normand), Bre tagne, and Flinders to repel with vigour any 'at tack which may be made. The forts are well sup plied with artillery, and furnaces tor heating red 'hot shot are built. The troops from Versailles and Paris are concentrating thetz;selves•in Picardy, and will march* from hence to wherever danger smay call them. ' • • NAPLAS,'I.ULT27.—The English have very unex petiedli received ,rders entirely to etacuate. .the Ischia and •Procida. The truopsand the t;ickare all ernb:;:ked. The Sicilian Prince Leap9ld, w/it; was an boara.the fleet,. and the Dukes of.Ar ,7 r a, two ,Nieapolitan erniganti, have tirnerlet4rp:ed w Melon!). wßtgfi .jppear,. ~~~:, ~ +i that cti nsiderable differences had taken place between them and General Stuart. Two English regiments have proceeded to Malta. • • ANTWERP, AUG. 10.—Considerable reinforce. ments were yesterday again thrown into Flushing. InAisence has been received, that the said fortress is no longer bombarded. A corps of 3000 men pasSed this day to jou) the combined army near Os sendrugt and Sandvelit. MADRID, JULY 30.—Our Court, Gozette contains the following intelligence : " SANTA OLALLA, JULY 28.—His Majesty over took at length the English army yesterday, at four o'clock in the afternoon, which, on the point of being surrounded by our troops, drew up in line of battle. The French army attacked the English with the utmost spirit and vigour. Some woods,which covered their left wing, did not remain long in their possession ; and the division of their army which occupied them, was annihilated by . the Duke of Belluno. " A regiment of one of the divisions in the first corps at tacked an English coluMn with the bayonet, killed 1000, and made 500 prisoners. The loss sustaineci by the enemy is very considerable, and cannot yet be calchlated. During the battle, the King was mana::uvring on the right of the English, in order to cut oic their retreat to Talavera and the Tagus." MAILS. AR RIV ID —1 GottenburAh, 3 Dublin, z Waterford. Gott,:nburgii, t t Waterford, CE O 1• STOCKS THIS DAY AT TINFLVIC O'CLOCK. Consols - . - 6.1. i I Red. Ant) 6SI 69 TIIE S UN. •OLIM QUIS DICIII-1 [A1.31;1& At7plAt L 0 D 0 N, MONDAY, AUGUST 21 , nog. Lord WALPOLE has recently arrived in town, but he quitted the theatre of war too soon to..have been able to sme, as mentioned in the Illorniqi Chronicle, that the Armistice was put an end to by the Aus- - trians. Ttice are, it is true, reports from the Con tinent, which way lead us,to expea as probable that hostilities will be renewed ; and we imagine, that no doubt can be entertained of the resignation of the -Archdl*e CHARLES. Bearing in mind, as we do, the glorio'las services of that illustrious Prince, we are almost inclined to hesitate in c(;nratulating Europe upon. his retire ment ; but we tear that it is too true that he has permitted a military cabal to assume a most baneiul influence over his Councils, and we have long known that the not taking advarrage of the vidory of Asperu was to be ascribed to that cabal. Prince Jonti of Lichstenstein, who contribut ed so essentially to the Viciory, had earnestly plored to have the permission of pursuing the diSCOlllfited NAPOLEON but he received the cold, • killing answer, that it was not the time for pur suit. If, therefore, Austria should again de cide . . on War, we could not but rejoice to see the command of her Armies entrusted to the enter- . . prizing and experienced General, who cnus,t be en deared to his' soldiers by the share 'he had in that most hillhant viEtory of Aspern ; who, had he not been restrained, would probably have lated the flying legions of France; and who, though forced, to obey the orders of his superior, ha-, it is known, most loudly protested against the fatal Ar mistice. The events we have witneksed bid us to beware of being too sanguine, but our breasts throb . with expeelation when we bear, at such a moment, of such a change in the command of the Austrian armies; and wecanuot say to ourselves, that if ever there was an opportunity when yvisdotn, in Council might emancipate the world, it is the present one. We are this day enabled to lay before our Readers two curious documents, viz. the Protest of the Pore against . 'the French violations and encroachments, and his Excommunication of BUCNAPAUTE. The times'are . long past since a p pal excommunication could make Monarchs tremble on their thrones, but still it will produce some effet:.4 in the Roman Catho licworld.' At a late hour on Sa.turday evening Major BRAD• FORD and Lieut. MAY arrived in Toivn with Dis patches from Lord CHATHAM and Sir RICHARD STRACHAN, announcing the surrender of Flushing. These Dispatches were yesterday published in a Ga zette ExtraordMary; which is given iii our sub:iequent columns. The great length of the Gizette renders it impossible for us at Present to offer any observa tions upon'thig impart:int conquest, but we . ta . nriot avoid expressing our sincere sati'sfaaion at findbig that. it has been achieved with so small a loss on onr , .• •.. - . .•, part. ' Yesserday Dutch Pape'rs were received, contain ing Paris intelligence to the 9th instant. BuoNA PART4 11as published another Bulletin, though he had nothing, to communicate; it merely contains an ex- . aggeratedstMcrilent of the Austrian forceat the com mencement of the war, and of the loss which they have sustained during its continuance. The Austrian . At my, 'we are told, is diminished to one-fourth, whi/e the 1. 7 .-ench liis 66abled its numbers since the battle of Ratisbon. 'The French raperi give an ac• count from the Madrid Gazette of the battle of Tala vera, but if it were not for the date, we should not have supposed that it related to the same battle : the English, it is said, were entirely defeated, and a French Regiment charged one of our columns with the bayonet, killed one thousand, and took 500 pri soners ! By accounts recently received from Russia, we find that the French influence there is now un bounded, and that it is exerted to the utmost to pre vent all intercourse whatever between Great Britain and Russia. A very strong proof of the extent to which this prohibition is carried occurred lately : A Russian Gentleman came to England a few months ago, with a regular passport, and having accomplish ed his business, set out on his return home; but on his arrival on the Russian frontiers, he was stopped, and, though he had regular passports; permitting him to return, they were not attended to, and he has ac. tually been compelled to return to England. The only reason assigned for not allowing him to enter the Russian country was, that he had had commer cial intercourse with this country. LINES BEFORE FLUSHING. AUGUST 16, Isop.—The following orders were issued by Lieutenant-General Sir EYILE COOTE : The garrison of Flushing having surrendered prisoners of war, Lietatennnt-General Sir Matt COOTE sincerely congratulates the troops under his immediate command, on the brilliant results of their great gallantry,:and unwearied exertions. - " In every affair in which the army has been en gaged since the landing; it has nobly:upheld that superiority, for valour, enterprise, and discipline, over a proud and vaunting enemy, of which . if had, upon former occasions, given repeated and nud.c niable proofs. The Royal Artillery has particularly distinguished itself during the 'siege; of. which no greater evidence can be required, than the present disastrous state of the town of Flushing. Sir : Evai COOTS; cannot omit this opportunity o+ noticing irt Nubile orders, the' high sense he en tenants of the zealous co-operation and ' valuable services of the brigade of seamezi, under the conc. mand of Capt. RICHARDSON and his Officers. • To such troops it would be an insult : to 'recom mend humanity and protection' Co those Who haVe fallen into 11)&0- power; but the I,ienienant-General deems it right to call upon them . to treat the . utilor= tunate and innocent inhabitants of Flushing, and its vicinity, with all possible i lenty, kindness, and attention." • • A letter, dated Puebra , r. anabria, June 25, from Marshal Sout...i to the Usurper of Spain, ha's been intercepted and publisiled in a Spanish Paper: It is very long, consi4t4 Of ten quarto pages of small' print. He beginS an' account of his inarcli from Lugo on the . 4:tit and details what oc coned till he-reached San Clbdio. He then states, that Lie had ordered three towns to 'l,le buin,t;'"be cause sonic Frenchmen had been assassinated. He, proceeds to disclose his intended pursuit of ROMA NA, in conjunetiori with NEY, and complains of the Luta' (pr. rendering the plan abortive. He speaktain ninurn . -; fill terms of the harassing warfare which his troops have suffered from 'the Spanish peasantry, and the depressed and exhausled state of his 'army. After detailing Military operations of no great importance, he. represents the deplorable state of his own army While in Galliciay advising the Usurper to adopt a systeM of lOrtitying:seve'n or eight imvortant points, Capable of containing 5. or 600 men . each, with an hospital and four mouths provision; which, he says, will require the expence of a million. Ttie rest of his t e ller is of 1i416 interest. Yesterday morning his MAJESTY, plincesses So rulA, AUGUSTA, and MARY, accumpabied by 'LLOy ISABELLA THYNNE, General CARTWRIGHT, and Cols. TAYLOR and pEs g ßow, rode to St. George's Chapel, and heard a Serthop [leached by the Rev. Dr. HEATH. Afterwards returned to . Windsor Pa lace. Saturday his MAZESTy, the Due of CO/EU.. LAND, 'Princesses AUGU S TA and . SORHIA, accom panied by Lady THYNNE, Sir ii. BURRARD, Ge nerals CARTWRIGHT and FITZROY, and Colonel TAYr-on, rode in the Great Park, at Winisor, and returned to the Palace at noon. This being the birth-.day of the Duke of CLA REI4CE, the same will be celebrated as usual. Hip, Royal Highness completes the 44th year of his age:. Captain Davison, who was convicted of stealing a piece of muslin, at Somerset Assizes, is sentenced to transportation for seven years. A Gottenbtirgh Mail has arrived.—The Court of Sweden has refused an application of the King of DENMARK. for permission to the Prince of HESSE to pass through that country to take the command iv Norway. 4ord 'W4LepLE is on his way to Eng land, with important dispatches from the head quarters of the ArchdUke CHARLES. j In our extracts from the New York Gazette, of July 27', we mentioned, an American Gentleman, iivAinsterdam, had r,eceived a letter from General ARMSTRONG, in which was said, that the Republi can A:nhassador " had finally made up his mind to . leave - Vrance immediately, and return to America." This intelligence is confirmed by letters from Hol land, received on Saturday, mentioning, that Gen. ARMSTRONG and family were expeted to arrive in a few days at Amsterdam, with the design of embark ing for the United States: I,,ast week a Gentleman, residing at Milton, un ,derkook for a-wager togs ten miles ,vithie - the hour, on. the Canterbury road, between Key-street and halkwell. 'Betting was considerably against him at starting, but he performed this extraordinary task, apparently with great ease, in seven minutes less than the given time. Thursday afternoon, as seven stone-masons,were landlng a stone in Cumberland -street, Piccadilly, the platform giving wait two feet, they lost their charge, and the stone rolled over them, two of them were killed, and three seriously wounded and taken to the hospital, without hopes of recovery. PROTEST against 13VONAPAR7`E, PIUS VII. PONTIFF. The dark designs, conceived by the enemies of the Apostolic See have at length been accom plished. After the violent and unjust spoliation of the fairest and most considerable portion of our do minions, we behold ourselves,' under unworthy pretexts, and with so much the greater injustice, entirely stripped of our temporal Sovereignty, to which our spiritual independence is intimately united. In the midst of this cruel persecution we are comforted by the reflection, that we encounter such a heavy misfortune, not for any offence given to the Emperor or to France, which has always been the objeEt of our affedionate paternal solici tude, nor for any intrigue of worldly policy, but from an unwillingness to betray our duties. To please men and to displease God is not allowed to any one professing the Catholic Religion, and much less can it be permitted to its Head and Pro- mulgator. As we, besides, owe it to God and the Church, to hand down our rights, uninjured and untouched, we protest against this new violent spoliation, and declare it void and null. Nire rejea with the firmest resolution, any allow ance which the Emperor of the French tnay intend to assign us, and to the ,individuals' composing our College. 'We should all' cover ourselves with ignorniny is the race of the Church, if we suffered our subsist- , once to depend on the power .of him who usurps het • • authority. We commit ourselves entirely to Providence, and to the affeelion of the faithful, and we shall be con tented piously to terminate the bitter career of 910 sorrowful days. We adore, with profound humility G )(I's inscru-; table decrees ; we invoke his commiseration upoll our good subjects, who will ever be our joy and our Crown ; and after having in this hardest of trials, dove what our duties required of us, we exhort the.ri to preserve, ai , vays untouched the reliaion acrd the • faith, and to unite themselves to us, for the pur-. pose of conjuring with sighs and tears, both in the closet and before' the altar, the Supreme. Father of Light, that he may vouchsafe to change the base de.., signs of our persecutors. Given at our Apostolic Palace, del Quitinale, this, toth of Joao 1809. (Loc. Sign i) PIUS PAPA VII. EXCOMMUALCATION of BUOIVAIPIIRTE. PIUS VII. PONTIFF By the authority of God Almighty, and of S.t? Paul and St. Peter, we declare you, and all y our co-operators in the a& of violence which yuu are . executing, to have incurred, the same Exeotninunt- , cation, which we in our Apostolic letters, conterny ~.. poraneousiy atlixing in the usual places of this city, declare to have been incurred by all those who, on the violent invasion of this city on the second oe : iebruau of last year, were guilty of the acts of violence, against which we have protested, as well. really in so many declarations, that by Our order have been issued by our successive Secretaries of , . Stale, as also in two Consistorial Collocations of the 16th of March, and the f ith July, 1808; i 3 common with all their agents, abettors, acGisers, and whoever the have been accessary to, or self been engaged in, the execution of thane at. , tempts. Given at Rome, Santa Maria Maggiore, Juno toth, in the Tenth Year of Our Pontficate.' Pm; PAPA SEPTIMUS. . . (Loc, Sign 1.) Two, hundred pounds have lately been remitted to the British prisoners in France by the Rev: Dr:John- . stop, one of the Ministers of North Leith, which that gentleman had colleded from some benevolent ladies and gentlemen in Edinburgh and Leith. Dr. Johnston formerly remitted considet able sums to the unfortunate prisoners, and no charity can - be better bestowed, as it not only relieves the distress of those brave men, but prevents them from being obliged to enter into the, service of the enemy. A life-boat, valued at 200 guineas, (the gift 0 Counsellor Walker), has been purchased fur the use of the harbour of Wexford.—She will be ,twioned at the Fort of Rosslare. The philartihrophy of this gentleman does not end -here, as, we are informed,• be generously contributes the sum of 201. annually towards keeping her in repair. An affair of gallantry occurred at Worcester dor-. ing the races, which promises to afford some profit' to the Gentlemen of the Long-robe. The young wife of a merchant in the City-, it is reported, Was found in amorous dalliance with an Officer of Dra goons. ' Richardson, charged with ernbezzli!ig the letters at the Post-Office, containing B.itik Notes, and [he woman, supposed to be his accomplice, were brought to town yesterday e v e ni ng , i n a C oa ch and Four, to , the Brown B e ar, by a Bow-street Officer, from Dover. On Saturday, a labouring man, of the name Of Coles, being i..censed at some insu t otfere i to 1) 111 by iJeveral boys in Drury-lane, gave way to so,vcs" lent a proxysot of passion, that he burst a blood vessel, and died within an hour after.